Changes and Releases

Updates on Giant Swarm workload cluster releases, apps, UI improvements and documentation changes.

• Mar 11, 2026 Connectivity ingress-nginx-app v4.3.0

  Changed

  • Chart: Sync to upstream.
    • Controller: Update image to v1.15.0.
• Mar 11, 2026 Observability fluent-logshipping-app v5.6.0

  Changed

  • Enable priority class by default to ensure fluentbit can preempt lower priority pods on overloaded nodes.
• Mar 11, 2026 Observability observability-platform-api v0.3.0

  Added

  • Add OTLP ingestion paths to Mimir and Loki HTTPRoutes
• Mar 10, 2026 Security auth-bundle v0.6.0

  Added

  • Add io.giantswarm.application.managed chart annotation for Backstage visibility.

  Changed

  • Migrate chart metadata annotations to OCI-compatible format.
  • Update athena to v1.15.2.
  • Update ingress-nginx-app to version v4.2.4.
  • Update rbac-bootstrap-app to v0.2.3.
• Mar 10, 2026 Connectivity ingress-nginx-app v4.2.4

  Changed

  • Chart: Sync to upstream.
    • Controller: Update image to v1.14.4.
    • Kube Webhook CertGen: Update image to v1.6.8.
• Mar 10, 2026 Connectivity ingress-nginx-app v4.1.8

  Changed

  • Chart: Sync to upstream.
    • Controller: Update image to v1.13.8.
    • Kube Webhook CertGen: Update image to v1.6.8.
• Mar 10, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.110.2

  Changed

  • Add Deployment annotations to automatically update the pod on config changes.
  • Improve logging in AI chat with conversation ID and better log level differentiation. See ./docs/releases/v0.110.2-changelog.md for more information.
• Mar 10, 2026 Fleet Management kubectl-gs v5.0.2

  Fixed

  • Fix Windows build failure caused by syscall.Flock usage in credential cache (not available on Windows).
• Mar 10, 2026 Fleet Management kubectl-gs v5.0.1

  Fixed

  • Apply --label flag values to the Cluster CR via Helm values (global.metadata.labels), the App CR, and the ConfigMap when using template cluster.
• Mar 10, 2026 Fleet Management kubectl-gs v5.0.0

  Removed

  • Remove template nodepool command.
  • Remove template networkpool command.
  • Remove AWS vintage and Azure vintage providers from template cluster command.
  • Remove AWS vintage and Azure vintage providers from get clusters and get nodepools commands.
  • Remove typed dependencies on sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api, sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api-provider-aws, and sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api-provider-azure in favor of unstructured objects.

  Fixed

  • Fix flaky nodepool, orgs, and clusters tests caused by timing race in AGE column rendering.
  • Update documentation URL from docs.giantswarm.io/use-the-api/kubectl-gs/ to docs.giantswarm.io/reference/kubectl-gs/.

• Newer entries
• Older entries